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Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 37.50Discusses the solar system bodies that are not one of the nine planets or their moons. This volume describes the discoveries of various asteroids, along with the long centuries of argument over the nature of meteorites and impact craters. It is useful for those interested in understanding the science and history of these bodies. more...
Complete CD Atlas of the Universe
Springer 2007; US$ 39.99Includes finder charts, in both normal and mirror-image views (for users of the ubiquitous Meade and Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope ranges), and a list of 14,000 objects. This CD is accompanied by a book that showcases the maps, describes the CD-R content and organization, and includes various appendices. more...
Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 46.00Reviews thinking of scientists concerned with mitigating the threat of hazardous asteroids and comets. more...
The Making of History's Greatest Star Map
Springer 2010; US$ 23.99From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers - and considerable resources - have been devoted to measuring their positions and motions with... more...
Star Maps
Springer 2012; US$ 35.99Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the... more...
The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres
Springer 2012; US$ 179.99Dawn is the first mission to orbit a main belt asteroid and the first scientific mission to use ion propulsion. Major objectives of this mission include mapping of the surfaces of 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres, determining its topography from stereo measurements, determining its mineralogy, measuring its elemental composition and obtaining ... more...
The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
Springer 2013; US$ 39.95When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. Since the 1980s the discovery and study of asteroid impact ejecta in the oldest... more...
Asteroids and Comets
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99The sky is filled with much to see. We see the sun during the day and the moon and stars at night. But you can see other interesting things as welllike bright lights with tails and objects that shoot straight through the stars! These things are asteroids and comets. Learn all about them in this book. 32 pages more...







